Another of the 20-30 some characters who will be appearing in the Mortasheen roleplaying game, available whenever I finish my big workload of artwork for it (sometime between...three weeks or three months from now. I work unpredictably slow)

Laverne is one of the most powerful figures in the entire continent-sized Mortasheen city as the queen of its most expansive meat processing empire - organic tissues being slightly above air and water in value to the city's inhabitants. A uniquely mutated "Sectilian" (proto-Arthropoid), her work force is a highly trained and formidable arthropoid army, especially flies and maggots, often modified with mechanical exosuits.

Laverne is idolized throughout the city as a sex symbol and has been romantically involved with Funkle, the Holder of Genetics, for several centuries.

I have a couple of things to say and they're mostly non-sequitur but I suppose it speaks well for the artwork that I want to gush over it as such:

Both the character and the artwork itself are excellent. My one criticism is those glowing eyes, which I find a little bit of a turnoff (because of cause a behemoth grub-queen is otherwise hugely sexy ain't that the truth). Certainly though I would have to say this is both one of your best characters and your best illustrations.

I find myself asking "Can she locomote (and how) or is she sessile? Does she have a harem of arthropoid slaves?".

Am looking forward to seeing the rest of these characters, but I'm unsure you can even improve on this

I just remembered I need to tell you that if you ever draw a joker queen, her abdomen needs to resemble a clown-car, because that's a visual gag too precious not to use.

well, it's basicly the same reason Thelazywriter gave(wich comment I somehow missed when posting).and the stiff expresion and glowing eyes makes me think its like the lure of the abysmal and not a real head, buts that probably just me

Nice. I do like the way the merging of human/termite queen anatomy changed from the original sketch, it's much more creative this way, but I still think the face on the original sketch looks prettier. Of course, the latter's probably more a difference of taste, so oh well.

Well then I'll just imagine her with the head from the original sketch. But I like the insect arms and the lack of regular arms. I could totally see that being animated, Laverne with all of those arms constantly writing away at expense reports, one arm bringing a cigarette to her lips as she lets off a long, steady draw.

Checking the old sketch again I now realize what I was trying to draw there was the head you see now, but in the sketch it's extremely distorted because it was done quickly and also smaller than a dime

I really love the sheer scale of her, and that she would be seen as a sex symbol in the Mortasheen universe. Great sense of depth on her body as well, and on the same note, the transition from human torso to maggot body is really well-done, with the insect legs being the same color as the human skin tying it together really nicely.